Oppenheim Architecture to teach this Fall at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art & Planning

Oppenheim Architecture staff
from the firm’s Miami and Basel offices, including Chad Oppenheim, Beat Huesler
and Tom McKeogh, will lead a studio entitled “(Co)Exist” this Fall at Cornell
University College of Architecture, Art & Planning. Oppenheim and Huesler
return to the school’s Ithaca, New York campus as esteemed alumni to teach this
course that addresses man’s increasingly adversarial and unsustainable
relationship with the natural world. The studio looks to disrupt established
and contemporary structures, hierarchies, and systems.

As the number of humans on
the planet exceeds 7.5 billion, technological advancements facilitate the
efficient exploitation of nature at an industrial scale — all in the name of
progress. If we do not create countermeasures to combat the cartel of
destructive forces harming our planet, the future will be less habitable for
our species. (Co)Exist recalibrates the notion of destruction through
construction, and craft experiences that connect us more viscerally with the
world around us.